Philippe Halsman (Filips Halsmans; 2 May 1906 – 25 June 1979 New York City) Philippe Halsman’s; he of the famous Marilyn Monroe portrait in a white dress, Dali’s flying cats, famous portraits of Brando, Hitchcock, and Einstein.
In the early 50′s Halsman was assigned to shoot a bunch famous comedians (Milton Berle, Sid Ceaser, Groucho, et al) He loved the way they were always moving and jumping. Halsman commented, “When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.”. The photographer developed a philosophy of jump photography, which he called jumpology. He published Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book in 1959, which contained a tongue-in-cheek discussion of jumpology and 178 photographs of celebrity jumpers. Here are a few of those.
Anthony Perkins
Marilyn Monroe
Martin and Lewis
Groucho Marx
Eva Marie Saint
Audrey Hepburn
Donald O’Conner
Eartha Kitt
André Breton
Dali
Duke & Dutchess of Windsor
Brigitte Bardot
Nixon
Diana Dors
J. Fred Muggs
Shirley McClaine
